I got home last night and did the UP4 upgrade the problem is now that it only boots up in a shell. Cinnamon is installed but when I try to run it all I get is

windows manager error: unable to open X display.

I have no idea how you run any programs from a shell as I have only ever used a desktop environment to launch the programs that I want to use. I am on windows xp to post this, luckily i have install a dual boot on my pc so that I can at try and solve problems.

I have tried in the past to switch to UP4 before its official release and thought that I was doing something wrong so waited for the official release but it is just the same

any help please

Last edited by Dar-es-Salaam on Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.

sorry cant do anything through windows as it wont find Linux at all. tried a live cd up3 but that would only go as far as opening the file stream. I did however spot that there was a folder or such called cat but could not get any further. I tried to sign onto my account on the live cd but it wouldn't let me for some reason or other so am back on windows

sorry cant do anything through windows as it wont find Linux at all. tried a live cd up3 but that would only go as far as opening the file stream. I did however spot that there was a folder or such called cat but could not get any further. I tried to sign onto my account on the live cd but it wouldn't let me for some reason or other so am back on windows

I couldn't get it to list what was inside it though. I tried type as in windows that did not work, I also tried ls --help but it scrolled straight of the top of my screen and I couldn't figure out how to get it to scroll up by a screen height I will learn one day though

I had second thoughts about that and thought that you might want the content but no matter what I try I cant get at it.

I have tried via windows XP but it wont look at it and I have no idea how to install ext2fsd without messing up XP ( the wife would do her nut if I did that ).it does boot up to a screen which lets me log in as root or home or gordon and then ends up with the command line. I have tried in all three places to get to the content but with no luck, all it keeps saying is that it can't run the display or words to that effect.

I assume from my comments that you realize that I am a complete dummy when it comes to the workings of either os but I do know a bit more about XP ( not much ) I am learning more about LINUX though slowly.

Problem solved. I suddenly remembered that I had tried something out on a previous occasion which had been suggested by viking777 and that was to use sgfxi so I went through my blogs and found the answer to a previous question and ran the command and thankfully it worked so we are now back on track. said I was slowly learning